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On the future of Perl 5

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 20:05 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by jengelh
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

In fact, C showed oodles of years ago that no variable prefixes are needed at all
That whippersnapper? What about COBOL? Algol? FORTRAN?


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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 4, 2008 0:16 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Don't forget Lisp.

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 4, 2008 0:27 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Can you believe that all of those are 50 years old, except for COBOL, which gets that distinction next year?

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